Stefano Arienti's Light Installations at Villa Croce, Genoa

Stefano Arienti (born 1961 in Asola) presents 'Meridiane' at Villa Croce in Genoa, a site-specific intervention that integrates his light-based works into the museum's permanent collection. Since 2012, Arienti has developed a technique of tracing shadows cast by windows onto packing paper, creating polychrome patterns that function as sundials, capturing the sun's position and temporal flow. The exhibition, curated without a conventional layout, places these works among the collection of Maria Cernuschi Ghiringhelli, whose windows face south. Arienti's pieces serve as backgrounds, intersections, or isolated series, emphasizing aesthetic juxtapositions over museographic criteria. The artist describes the arrangement as free and timeless, prioritizing rhythm and discovery. This follows his earlier interventions at Museion's storage (2010) and Palazzo Te in Mantua (2016). The show explores the relationship between nature, space, and light, questioning contemporary exhibition design and the duality of sign and image.